Malcom Baker, distinguished professor of the history of art at the University of California, Riverside; Louis Marchesano, curator of prints and drawings at the Getty Research Institute (GRI); and Frances Terpak, senior collections curator at the GRI, discuss the album as a type of collection.

The PSCP Forum series is organized and presented by the GRI's Project for the Study of Collecting and Provenance (PSCP) and collaborator Daniela Bleichmar of USC.

Many of the iconic bridges that span the Los Angeles River are slated for retrofit and, in some cases, demolition. Larry Mantle, host of KPCC's Air Talk, moderates a panel discussion of experts and preservationists on the status and plans for these landmarks. Organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, the Los Angeles Conservancy, and Friends of the Los Angeles River. A related daylong event featuring tours and activities takes place on Sunday, April 13.

Drop by as traditional cabinetmaker Patrick Edwards demonstrates materials and techniques for making marquetry, a decorative, inlaid veneer that can be found on many furniture pieces in the Getty's decorative arts collection.

Join a Museum educator before or after your visit to the California Video exhibition to hear a brief overview and participate in a 15-minute question and answer session. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

Bernard Rudofsky was an architect, curator, critic, exhibition designer, and fashion designer whose entire oeuvre was influenced by his lifelong interest in people's concepts about the body. Enjoy a curator's guided tour of the exhibition Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky, which includes a diverse collection of Rudofsky's sketches, architectural models, travel notebooks, photographs, sculptures, fabrics, and footwear. Meet in the Research Institute Exhibition Gallery.

Enjoy a one-hour tour focusing on neoclassicism and romanticism in the Getty's collection by exploring the art and culture of these related and distinctive movements of the 18th- and 19th-centuries. Meet at the Museum Information Desk.

This installation of antiquities demonstrates the relationship of ancient art to later work, showing some of the themes, techniques, and motifs borrowed by later artists—from mythology to decorative design—and the approach to the human figure known today as the classical ideal. This permanent collection installation is on view in the North Pavilion.

Internationally recognized video artist Nicole Cohen (American, b. 1970) explores the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum's collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts. Viewers are invited to engage in a participatory experience, forming personal, imaginative narratives through video projections that render the chairs virtually accessible.

This small, focused exhibition assembles a group of paintings, drawings, and prints—for the first time—to examine the late allegories of love by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732–1806). This project comes out of research based on the Getty Museum's painting, The Fountain of Love, which was acquired in 1999. The exhibition concentrates on the extraordinary, and still little-known, later works of Fragonard, in which he embarked on a series of dramatic reflections on the subject of romantic love, adopting a newly-restrained palette and allegorical vocabulary, while retaining his famously fluid and effortless handling.

This exhibition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Getty Center and the growth of the drawings collection during the decade. With an emphasis on showing how and why works are selected for acquisition, the exhibition provides a glimpse into the process by which works enter the collection, as well as a compelling survey of some of the drawings acquired. Highlights include an important transfer-drawing by Gauguin, 18th-century drawings by Guardi, Canaletto, Rosalba Carriera, and the Tiepolos, and rare examples from the early German school, including works by an Upper Rhenish Master and a follower of the Housebook Master.

Bernard Rudofsky (American, 1905–1988, born in Austria) was an architect, curator, critic, exhibition designer, and fashion designer whose entire oeuvre was influenced by his lifelong interest in people's concepts about the body. He is as well known for his controversial exhibitions and publications as he is for the design of the popular Bernardo sandals in the 1950s and 1960s. Co-organized by the Getty Research Institute (GRI) and the Architekturzentrum Wien, Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky illustrates Rudofsky's thought process through the diverse presentation of sketches, architectural models, travel notebooks, photographs, sculptures, fabrics, and footwear drawn heavily from the Rudofsky archive of the Research Library at the GRI. The exhibition premiered at the Architekturzentrum Wien in spring 2007 and travels to the Canadian Centre for Architecture before opening at the Getty in spring 2008.

Celebrating the quality and diversity of Kertész's long career in photography, this exhibition comprises approximately 55 prints drawn from the Getty's collection that the artist made in Hungary, France, and the United States, where he lived for 40 years. This exhibition is organized chronologically and geographically, beginning in Hungary, where Kertész was born in 1894 and made his first photograph in 1912, then moving to rare small prints made in Paris, where he emigrated in 1925. The final section presents photographs made in New York, where he lived and worked from 1936 until his death in 1985.

The work of Mexico City photographer Graciela Iturbide (b. 1942) is featured in a show of about 140 prints drawn from a combination of sources, including the Getty Museum's holdings, the collection of Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, and the artist's own archives. Not strictly a retrospective of the photographer's career, this exhibition highlights Iturbide's work with surviving indigenous communities in southern Mexico (such as the Zapotec Indians of Juchitán and the Mixtec Indians of Huajuapan), outsider immigrant groups in East Los Angeles (like members of the White Fence and Maravilla gangs), and those struggling at La Frontera, the U.S./Mexico border. Concentrating on this international artist's North American pictures, it examines her more recent landscape studies from the American South as well as Mexico, and presents images from Iturbide's native city created almost 40 years ago.

The first comprehensive survey of California video art from 1968 to the present, this exhibition includes important examples of single-channel video, video sculpture, and video installation. Featuring the work of 58 artists, duos, and collectives, California Video locates a distinctively West Coast aesthetic within the broader history of video art while highlighting the Getty's major commitment to the preservation and exhibition of a young but vital artistic medium. This exhibition is co-organized by the Getty Research Institute and the J. Paul Getty Museum.

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the Getty Center, the Manuscripts Department of the J. Paul Getty Museum is mounting an exhibition of selected acquisitions of the past ten years. The display includes some of the collection's illuminated treasures including the 12th-century Stammheim Missal, a masterpiece of German medieval art; the Avranches psalter, one of the earliest examples of Gothic book painting in France; three miniature paintings from a famous 14th-century Florentine hymnal; the unique copy of a racy epistolary novel written by the future Pope Pius II; and the portrait of King Louis XII of France from his book of hours. The selection includes a strong representation of manuscripts and miniatures ranging from the 13th to the 16th centuries from Italy along with examples of illumination from France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Greece, and Ethiopia.

Ten Years in Focus: The Artist and the CameraDaily through August 10, 2008West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center

This exhibition of notable acquisitions that have entered the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum in the past ten years brings together two complementary aspects of the medium of photography: a "painterly" approach used by many artists to set their work apart from that of practitioners of a more documentary style, and the apparatus integral to the resulting pictures. Whether the connection to painting is in the form of traditional subject matter (portraits, landscapes), one-of-a-kind prints, or the translation of a painterly vocabulary into a photograph, artists are always drawn to new materials. The pictures and the equipment presented here provide insight into photography as a unique marriage of art and technology.

This 20-minute gallery talk introduces ways of looking at ancient art through an in-depth exploration of one object in the collection. This month the featured object is a Sarcophagus from Clazomenae (present-day Turkey) dating from 480–470 B.C. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store beginning at 10:45 a.m.

This one-hour tour provides an overview of major works from the Museum's collection. Offered in English and Spanish on weekends. Meet at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Main Entrance beginning at 1:45 p.m.

Join us for this one-hour tour as we explore rites of passage in the Greek and Roman world. We will examine visual and textual evidence in the collection documenting life's important transitions, such as birth, adulthood, marriage, and death. Space is limited. Sign up at the Tour Meeting Place outside the Museum Store 15 minutes before the talk.

Exhibitions

The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the PresentDaily through June 23, 2008Museum, Floor 2, Getty Villa

Focusing on representations of the human figure, this exhibition explores the role of color in sculpture and its place in Western taste. Ancient, medieval, and early Renaissance statues were regularly painted, but Neoclassical collecting interests and aesthetic concerns have privileged monochrome marble and bronze. Following recent research on ancient pigments, The Color of Life includes a variety of masterpieces that reveal the lifelike qualities of polychrome statues fashioned over the course of four millennia.

A Roman marble statue of Hygieia, ancient goddess of health, was found at Ostia in 1797 and restored shortly thereafter. The sculpture was first acquired by the British interior designer Thomas Hope and was later owned by American newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The figure's 19th-century restorations were removed in the 1970s, but these historical additions were recently reintegrated at the Getty Villa. On loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hope Hygieia exemplifies evolving attitudes toward the restoration and display of classical sculpture on the part of collectors, curators, and conservators.